'Too simplistic' to lay blame on Government for hospital crisis

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said trolley numbers and waiting times were the result of an unprecedented wave of illness, and not failures of his or previous Governments. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

It is "too simplistic" to say that chaos in hospitals is a failure of successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments, the Taoiseach says.

Speaking after the first Cabinet meeting of 2023 in Farmleigh, Leo Varadkar said that trolley numbers and waiting times in recent weeks were the result of an unprecedented wave of illness, and not failures of his or previous Governments.